Spending long hours at the drawing board, Woody had finally gained recognition as one of the leading new talents in comics, and he now began to pace himself at the steady rate of three finished pages a day. Years later, he looked back at his 1950-51 display of energy as his most prolific and productive period. “My Avon period... I was working for EC at the time, and Captain Science, and one other company, and I did a page a day for each of them.” Since childhood he had also been writing comics as he roughed, and his ability in this area was evident at EC when the New Trend began. “Let’s see, I wrote the first one, “Dark Side of the Moon” (Weird Fantasy #15, 1950) was it? I did suggest the ideas for several of the stories which Al wrote.” For Weird Fantasy he also scripted “The Enemies of the Colony” (#8) and plotted “Deadlock” (#17, 1950) and “Rescued” (#18, 1950), later scripting “Revolution” for the first issue of Two-Fisted Tales.